Is contrib status changing with apache move?

[Joe Briggs <JB...@primetherapeutics.com>]

I am not sure if it is kosher to ask about contribs on the list, but fools 
rush in...

I am trying to run svn_load_dirs.pl on windows in order to do some vendor 
branch management. I see some discussions on the list about problems 
others have had finding and running the file. I am modifying the file in 
order to get it to work and mostly successful so far.

My larger question is about contribs in general now that the project has 
moved to apache. The vendor branch management strategy in the svn book 
still refers to svn_load_dirs.pl,  but it is rarely included by those 
folks creating binaries for windows. (I am not sure about packagers for 
other platforms). Is there a thought about whether contribs will be left 
behind, or rolled in more?
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Re: Is contrib status changing with apache move?

[Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com>]

On Jul 23, 2010, at 5:55 AM, David Weintraub wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Joe Briggs
> <JB...@primetherapeutics.com> wrote:
>> I am not sure if it is kosher to ask about contribs on the list, but fools
>> rush in...
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> My larger question is about contribs in general now that the project has
>> moved to apache. The vendor branch management strategy in the svn book still
>> refers to svn_load_dirs.pl,  but it is rarely included by those folks
>> creating binaries for windows. (I am not sure about packagers for other
>> platforms). Is there a thought about whether contribs will be left behind,
>> or rolled in more?
> 
> I wrote the list a few weeks ago about adding some new pre-commit
> hooks into Subversion, and the reply was that the Subversion project
> is no longer maintaining "contributed" software which would include
> hooks.
> 

The contributed software wasn't ever officially maintained, just interested developers would own files in there.

> I found the script over at Fresh Ports
> <http://www.freshports.org/devel/svn_load_dirs/>. It looks like
> someone over there is actively maintaining it.

I think this is just pulling the files from the tarball, so it's not active development of the script itself.

If you send in patches to it, then somebody may apply them to the source.

Regards,
Blair

Re: Is contrib status changing with apache move?

[David Weintraub <qa...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Joe Briggs
<JB...@primetherapeutics.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if it is kosher to ask about contribs on the list, but fools
> rush in...
>
> [...]
>
> My larger question is about contribs in general now that the project has
> moved to apache. The vendor branch management strategy in the svn book still
> refers to svn_load_dirs.pl,  but it is rarely included by those folks
> creating binaries for windows. (I am not sure about packagers for other
> platforms). Is there a thought about whether contribs will be left behind,
> or rolled in more?

I wrote the list a few weeks ago about adding some new pre-commit
hooks into Subversion, and the reply was that the Subversion project
is no longer maintaining "contributed" software which would include
hooks.

I found the script over at Fresh Ports
<http://www.freshports.org/devel/svn_load_dirs/>. It looks like
someone over there is actively maintaining it.


-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart@gmail.com